Today, a report announced that Paramount Pictures is looking to completely reboot the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action franchise. The last live-action film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, produced by Michael Bay, bombed at the box office in 2016. The film starred Johnny Knoxville as Leo, Alan Ritchson as Raph, and Megan Fox as April O’Neil for some reason. Following the merger with Skydance, the studio wants to revamp the live-action franchise for a new audience under producer Neal H. Moritz (Fast & Furious, Sonic the Hedgehog). In 2021, Bay was set to return to produce a film with The Jost Brothers penning a script, but that has been passed on.
They already scored big with 2023’s animated film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, with a sequel on the way. Unfortunately, the new regime at the studio has put The Last Ronin on hold. The studio doesn’t want the first live-action movie in over a decade to be a gritty, hard-R adult film, given its branding. Though the report states the door is still open to revisiting the title down the line. No director is attached to the live-action film.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot has no set release date
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
